We are always surprised that people don’t seem to get how huge the difference is between recording drums, or indeed any acoustic instrument, in a great sounding recording studio and recording in a carpet-walled toilet. Our new video series will set the record...
When I was a kid I hated Gibson’s Les Paul Junior guitar. It looked like a cheap fake version of the venerable Les Paul to me. It’s skinny headstock didnt seem to scream rock and roll in the way that Peter Townshend’s burgundy red Deluxe did. Not to...
The Music Industry is a cruel and shallow money trench where thieves and pimps run free? But how did it get like this? Fundamentally there are two key issues at play: 1. The music business is a cool sexy industry where, for musicians and songwriters, fortunes are made...
Life is varied at a commercial recording studio. We literally don’t know what’s going to come in next. This is great because it keeps us on our toes and helps to keep our perspective wide. A couple of weeks ago I received my first Bhangra song to mix....
As recording engineers go, I guess I’ve always been a ‘focus on what’s coming’ rather than a ‘rest on past glories’ type. So I hadn’t even thought what my last 5 years in the recording studio might look like. The new facebook...
